Each of us has the right and responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, the we need to gather our resolve, and carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well.
-- Maya Angelou

If you don’t like where you are, there’s no reason you have to stay there, right?

Okay, how about this – if you have no idea where you want to go or what you want to do, you don’t have to stay confused. Right?

Yes, that’s right. But then, the question becomes how do you go about figuring out what you want and what road you take to get there. How do you sift through all you think you want, through all you know to find an answer? Is it okay to put some of what you want and know on the shelf and just go for this one thing right here right now? Then, are you abandoning some stuff? What if you shelve the wrong thing? What if later you take something off the shelf, will it still be okay? Or will it have expired and no longer be of use?

How do you rattle through your everyday routine of making this end meet that end, caring for yourself and your vast responsibilities, and move beyond what’s comfortable, stable, dependable, and ordinary to step off the road to another direction? How do you wake up from a long, monotonous slumber? By an alarm clock that signals boredom and fatigue? One that rings loudly to tell you your life is passing you by? An alarm clock that rings the same way it did yesterday morning and the sound you hear is the wake up call that says your comfortable life is a downer and you’re just as dull as your life?

How so you move forward without grasping at straws, trying this thing, spending that time and that dime, taking 2 steps back for every chance you take? Or, how do you move forward without doubting and finding every reason to stay put? How do you take a chance, even when you’re afraid? Do you dissect and face every thing you fear, or do you chalk the panic and apprehension up to commonsense and sanity? Do commonsense and sanity then keep you stagnant and stuck where you are?

Or do commonsense and sanity make you ask yourself right and righteous questions and help you keep all that’s important to you in perspective while you seek new directions and opportunities? Do you resolve that just because you prefer reason over spontaneity, it doesn’t mean you don’t want excitement?

Do you then define excitement as enthusiasm, enthusiasm about something more than what you already know, something out of the ordinary, something off the beaten and worn path, and then determine that some area of your life will be immediately submitted and exposed to excitement, enthusiasm, adventure, and inspiration and that there’s nothing stopping you at this moment from finding it and doing whatever the thing is that can bring you joy or difference or positive change in your life? Don’t you then, at that very moment, no longer feel stuck? Less confused?

Then, it is right. You don’t have to stay where you are.

Sadiqqa © 2007